No Perfect Solutions

​Things are much grayer than the grappling world would have you believe. I think many times as instructors we teach techniques like there’s good and bad or right and wrong. While through time and experience we know more efficient or easier ways to do things, the truth is, if it works, it works. Perhaps it is the assumption of the student or maybe it’s the language we use, but there are a lot of valid escapes and ways to do things that I’ve seen people dissuaded from simply because their coach doesn’t like it. I will be honest if I don’t like a technique. I will also be more likely to give you the drawbacks of a move when you ask me about it. I don’t have all the answers and I never will, but we find better answers when we don’t search for perfect solutions.